![]() Although Shea's historical novels were much more conventional in format that the Illuminatus! Work, they contain a few sly hints on the subjects and organizations of that earlier work. Shea later left Playboy to become a full-time novelist, but his friendship with Wilson would remain intact until Shea's passing from cancer in 1994. Eventually they began to collaborate on what would become the Illuminatus! Trilogy, a set of books that combined sex, drugs, alternative religions, anarchism, and conspiracy theory with humor, mischief, and plenty of chaos. He worked as a magazine editor in New York and Los Angeles before coming to edit the Playboy Forum where, in the 1960s, he met Bob Wilson. He also authored The Saracen, a novel that describes the intricate politics of medieval Italy through the eyes of an Islamic warrior, and Shaman, which traces the fate of the survivors of the Black Hawk War in 19th century Illinois.īorn in 1933, Robert Shea attended Manhattan Prep, Manhattan College, and then Rutgers University. Shea was also the author of Shike, a novel set in medieval Japan Lady Yang, a tragic story of an idealistic empress of medieval China and All Things Are Lights, a story that entwines the fate of Cathars of southern France with the occult traditions of Courtly Love and the troubadours. ![]() ©1975 Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (P)2006 Deepleaf Productions Inc. ![]() Bob Shea co-authored the Illuminatus Trilogy along with Robert Anton Wilson. In 1976, Ken Campbell adapted Illuminatus for the stage, creating a 10-hour epic that went on to open the Royal National Theatre in London under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth II. ![]()
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